But what makes [Dolph] Lundgren's story more than just another rise-and-fall-and-rise-again celebrity comeback tale is the complex 54-year-old man beneath the brawny surface. Lundgren has an IQ of 160. He earned a Fulbright scholarship to study chemical engineering at MIT. And he may be the only actor on the planet who helped develop the water filtration system for NASA's space shuttle program.

Hollywood screenwriter Joe Eszterhas is accusing Mel Gibson, his recent collaborator on a movie about Jewish revolt, of “hating Jews” and using him to deflect his anti-Semitic reputation.
In an explosive nine-page letter to Gibson obtained by TheWrap, the screenwriter wrote that the director of “The Passion of the Christ” never intended to make the movie about Jewish heroism, called “The Maccabees.”
Instead, Eszterhas said, Gibson announced the project “in an attempt to deflect continuing charges of anti-Semitism which have dogged you, charges which have crippled your career.”
"You continually called Jews '****' and 'oven-dodgers' and 'Jewboys.' It seemed that most times when we discussed someone, you asked 'He's a ****, isn't he?' You said most 'gatekeepers' of American companies were '****'s' who 'controlled their bosses.'"
The slurs continued, through their work:
“You said the Holocaust was 'mostly a lot of horseshit.' You said the Torah made reference to the sacrifice of Christian babies and infants. When I told you that you were confusing the Torah with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, ... you insisted 'it's in the Torah -- it's in there!' (It isn't)."

Joe Eszterhas tells TMZ ... he has hard proof that he witnessed the hate-filled rants he -- or someone -- just disclosed to the world, because his teenage son secretly recorded much of it.

Joe tells us, "A lot of the stuff is on tape." He says the recordings were made in Costa Rica -- by his son Nick. Joe would not say if the alleged comment about John Lennon -- "I'm glad he's dead. He deserved to be shot," or the comment about Oksana Grigorieva,"I want to f**k her in the ass and stab her while I'm doing it,"[/b] or the comment about William Morris/Endeavor Chairman Ari Emanuel, "He's a C**t Jewboy," were all on tape.

In his letter to Mel, Joe wrote that his son recorded some of Mel's outbursts on his iPhone, but the letter did not disclose how much -- now Joe says, "a lot."

Joe also says people who allegedly witnessed Mel's rants are willing to come forward.

As for "The Maccabees" script that Warner Bros. rejected, Joe said, "I'm heartbroken. I put my heart and soul into a script for someone who hates Jews."

Joe said, "He needs help. Badly."

As I posted over on the RD, a movie, by Mel, on the Maccabees would be great. And I can certainly understand his disgust with Lennon's "Imagine there was no heaven/religion" secular, humanist bullshit. Of course, thinking that way doesn't mean Lennon deserved to get shot. Though Mel probably didn't mean it literally.

Maybe he wasn't literal either when he (allegedly) called that Hollywood insider a "Jew [BadWord]"?

And maybe I'm not literal either when I call him an asshole?

(The dismissive word you and Mel are looking for with "Imagine" isn't "messianic" but "pretentious." Of all of Lennon's personal misdeeds, and he had quite a few, that's the least of them.)

As I posted over on the RD

What's the RD?

The law firm Epstein Becker & Green P.C. has sent a legal threat on behalf of Fox News to Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton over his site's ongoing "Fox Mole" story involving recently fired Fox News employee Joe Muto.

In response, Gawker not only published the letter but has posted a photo of "O'Reilly Factor" host Bill O'Reilly standing with a group of friends, including a topless woman.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/gawker-gets-fox-mole-legal-threat-responds-photo-211647938.html

Believe it or not I never saw "What's Love Got To Do With It" the story of Ike/Tina Turner starring Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburn.

I never realized just how awful their relationship was. What a abusive, demanding piece of shit that guy was. He was nothing without her, musically (and nothing otherwise)if you ask me. I remember when they performed together in the beginning, it was always Tina who stood out and Ike was more "background." Anyway, no respect for him whatsoever.

I'm sure everyone's seen it but me, but I must say it was disturbing yet very good.

TIS

During opening night and the following day, Chinese micro-blogs were alight with simultaneous gripes about the censoring and nostalgic gushing over the film’s sweeping romantic drama.

"I've been waiting almost 15 years, and not for the 3D icebergs," said one widely cited micro blog commentator, according to Xinhua News Agency.

The same nude scenes were censored during the film’s original run in China in 1998, but many viewers first saw the film on pirated copies from the West, and thus are more familiar with the unedited version.

TIS, it was very disturbing! Honestly, I've never been able to watch Laurence Fishburne the same way, because he was so convincing in that role. Good flick, though.

The Titanic was only re-released so it would overtake The Avatar as the highest grossing film of all time, only around $700 million behind..

(The dismissive word you and Mel are looking for with "Imagine" isn't "messianic" but "pretentious." Of all of Lennon's personal misdeeds, and he had quite a few, that's the least of them.)